Calling for your favorite Kite/Balloon Mapping images and video!

Public Lab is working on a campaign to relaunch our Balloon Mapping Kit, and to that end we're hoping to round up images and/or video showcasing your kite and balloon photography over the years!

We'd love to see documentation of all kinds of projects: large-scale research missions, backyard surveys, successful (or unsuccessful) experimentation, works in progress, or anything else you can think of that gives insight into aerial mapping and your work with the process. Completed maps and action shots of mapping teams are all welcome! As long as you put something up in the air (or TRIED to put something up in the air), we'd love to take a look.

Feel free to post photos, videos, links, and any commentary you wish directly into this post or the comments. Many thanks!

There are a LOT of amazing Gowanus photos of canoes in all sorts of water conditions, from frozen to milky white with the carcasses of sewage-gorging bacteria. Assuming @bronwen can find these, otherwise, i can upload!

When I couldn't find any free, high-resolution aerial imagery of my coral reef study site, @glennon introduced me to BAP and KAP. Since then I've used it to for mapping but also as a way to teach students in California and Indonesia about remote sensing for environmental monitoring.

Sadly, one camera drowned in the making of this orthophoto mosaic (though the SD card + photos survived :)

Coastal mapping with students in Bali, Indonesia

Map-reading isn't a universal skill. I've found that the process of shooting and then arranging aerial photos into a mosaic helps people connect their ground-based perspective with the aerial perspective of a typical map.

Balinese students arrange KAP photos

KAP map made in Mapknitter by students in Art CS 177: Art and Science of Aerospace Culture, UC Santa Barbara, Spring 2015